Breaking Covenants

When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. — read the full passage →

Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, — read the full passage →

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; — read the full passage →

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? — read the full passage →

Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded. — read the full passage →

And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again. — read the full passage →

And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name: — read the full passage →

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.

Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God. — read the full passage →

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: — read the full passage →

But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.

Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore. — read the full passage →

And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.

Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; — read the full passage →

For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them. — read the full passage →

When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof; — read the full passage →

When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. — read the full passage →

Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. — read the full passage →

Thou shalt not steal.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum. — read the full passage →

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.

And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: — read the full passage →

If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband’s brother unto her. — read the full passage →

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. — read the full passage →

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →